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The Moon on Sunday, September 27, 1959: Waning Crescent, 27% lit

Waning · 27.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 00°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on September 27, 1959Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 September 1959392,776 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 27, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 27.4% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

27.4%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
392,776 km244,059 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 2, 1959 at 12:31 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, September 25, 195902:22
New Moon (after)Friday, October 2, 195912:31

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Sunday, September 27, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 1959 to the new moon of October 2, 1959, a cycle of 29.44 days.